Summary: David Smith (<a href="https://twitter.com/revodavid">@revodavid</a>) is the Cloud Developer Advocate and R Community Lead at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, David was the Chief Community Officer (and is current editor-in-chief) of Revolution Analytics, a daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization since 2008.<br> David has a knack for building user communities and is currently the Vice President of Community for REvolution Computing, David focuses on promoting and supporting the commercial use of the open-source data analysis software system R.<br> David is a co-author of the tutorial manual <a href="https://amzn.to/2P3cXaI">An Introduction to R</a>, one of the originating developers of ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics and is also a member of the board of the R Consortium.<br> <br> <a href="https://fringe.fm/itunestextlink">You can listen right here on iTunes</a><br> In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:<br> <br> * The ethical problems of analyzing data<br> * Why AI will affect so many massive industries<br> * How governments need to start thinking about AI/ML<br> * The reason David thinks artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it destroys<br> * Why we’re still decades off from artificial general intelligence<br> * The tech giant effect on AI and data science<br> * How Microsoft is leading the way towards tech future<br> * David’s thoughts on the future of tech monopolies<br> * Why the battle for the future is based on attracting developers<br> * Where cloud computing is headed from here<br> * Why open ecosytems and opensource almost always wins<br> <br> <br> <a href="http://fringe.fm/itunes"></a><br> <a href="http://fringe.fm/stitcher"></a><br> —<br> Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM<br> <br> FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on <a href="http://fringe.fm/donate">Patreon,</a> via <a href="https://fringe.fm/paypal">Paypal</a> or with <a href="https://fringe.fm/donorbox">DonorBox powered by Stripe</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br>
